Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

[Francisco Rivas]

Johannes,

It is a good idea try with other version of the xorg. please post something
about your experience.

On 5/11/07, JD <jdangler@××××××××.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Skov Frandsen [mailto:joe@×××××.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:24 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X
>
> Francisco Rivas skrev:
> > Hi all friends, I really like this situations because we learn so
> > much...I have to thank you to all for this experience...
> >
> > Well we got a lot of work to do for help Johannes.
> >
> > You fell confortable installing the ati-drivers manually?, if your
> > aswer is Yes, then:
> >
> > 1.- Disable all support for ati in the kernel
> >
> > 2.- Enable the framebuffer console like
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash, because I know (for sure) you
> > want a grubsplash and bootsplash :D :
> >
> > 3.- Unmerge all ati driver you have installed.
> >
> > 4.- Execute manually the installation and finally aticonfig --initial,
> > and startx.
> >
> > Note : I have :
> > X.org <http://X.org> :
> >       X Window System Version 7.1.1
> >       Release Date: 12 May 2006
> >       X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
> >       Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
> >       Current Operating System: Linux dta-desktop 2.6.21-gentoo #3 SMP
> > PREEMPT Wed May 9 17:07:22 VET 2007 i686
> >       Build Date: 28 February 2007
> >           Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
> >            to make sure that you have the latest version.
> >       Module Loader present
> >
> > Kernel :
> >       2.6.21-gentoo #3 SMP PREEMPT (but I has 2.6.20-r6,r7,r8) and it
> > works too.
> >
> > Ati Card : ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
> >       $fglrxinfo
> >          OpenGL vendor string : ATI Technologies Inc.
> >          OpenGL renderer string : ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
> >         OpenGL version string : 2.0.6458 (8.36.5)
> >
> > If your answer is No. Try with #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge
> > ati-drivers, in my case is
> > *  x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra
> >       Latest version available: 8.33.6
> >       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> >       Size of files: 57,246 kB
> >       Homepage:      http://www.ati.com <http://www.ati.com>
> >       Description:   Ati precompiled drivers extra application
> >       License:       ATI GPL-2 QPL-1.0
> >
> > *  x11-drivers/ati-drivers
> >       Latest version available: 8.35.5
> >       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> >       Size of files: 55,971 kB
> >       Homepage:      http://www.ati.com
> >       Description:   Ati precompiled drivers for recent chipsets
> >       License:       ATI GPL-2 QPL-1.0
> >
> > Emerge the 8.35.5 and aticonfig --initial
> >
> > I hope this help you...Please comment us your experience...
> >
> > --
> > Francisco Rivas
> > Linux User (New) : #448324
> > Linux Machine (New) : 355187
> Hi everybody
>
> Thanks for all the help so far,,, I'm embarrassed/sorry to say that non
> of it really worked so far.
>
> I recompile the  kernel without any ati support and installed 8.35.5
> driver without a problem.
> But aticonfig claims it can't run because of an invalid xorg.conf file
> and i can't generate a new one with 'Xorg -configure'
> it just prints this error:
>
> marvin / Xorg -configure
>
> X Window System Version 7.2.0
> Release Date: 22 January 2007
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 i686
> Current Operating System: Linux marvin 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 #6 SMP Fri May
> 11 17:52:
> 30 GMT 2007 i686
> Build Date: 11 May 2007
>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri May 11 23:11:24 2007
> List of video drivers:
>         ati
>         atimisc
>         fglrx
>         radeon
>         savage
>         r128
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c7b64]
> 1: [0xffffe420]
> 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxProbeMain+0x13d)
> [0xb74a5b1
> d]
> 3: Xorg(DoConfigure+0x208) [0x80ca2e8]
> 4: Xorg(InitOutput+0x685) [0x809fae5]
> 5: Xorg(main+0x27b) [0x806e26b]
> 6: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb7c86838]
> 7: Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806d7a1]
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
> Aborted
>
> Have you tried this with removing fglrx?  I've had similar issues with
> other
> video drivers, and by removing fglrx from the equation I've been able to
> at
> least get X to fire up.
>
> Currently I'm supporting the theory that Young Sun is right, and that
> the problem is the version of Xorg.
>
> Tomorrow I will try to uninstall the compiled drivers from ati and try
> the open source drivers. If that doesn't work
> I'm feeling inclined to buy a new nvidia card instead.
>
> Maybe I could also try to make the onboard S3 savage card  work,
> although I have never been a big fan of
> graphic cards with shared memory.
>
> Thanks again for all the help....
>
> Johannes
>
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Francisco Rivas
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